Appeals court ruling lets Standing Rock off the hook for $750,000 payment

A before picture of Adam Molai’s gravesite. Submitted photo

Appeals court ruling lets Standing Rock off the hook for $750,000 payment

- Wendy DiAlesandro

The 11th District Court of Appeals has upheld a judge’s decision to overturn a jury decision awarding Kent resident Fred Molai $750,000 for damages related to burial plots he purchased from Standing Rock Cemetery.

In a September 2021 verdict, the jury ordered the cemetery — via its administrators, the City of Kent and Franklin Township — to pay the sum for violating its contract with Molai by removing an arrangement of poles and posters around his son’s gravesite.

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